Aposphaeria Canavaliae, Mazw. Ji"'/'"/^arescenti-nigricantes, 
irregulares, indeterminatae. Perithecia superficialia, atra, glabra, 
ostiolo conico pertusa, contexto parenchymatico brunneo donata. 
aque obtuse rotundatae, 24-30 x 
S-lO/i, sterigmatibus cylindraceis 12-15 x 4^ hyalinis insidentes. 
Fiji. On dead pods of some species of Canavalia, 
Yeoward, 9. 
Forming blackish patches of large size on the surface of the 
pod. Allied to A. macrospora, Sacc, differing in the somewhat 
smaller spores and the much longer beak or ostiolum of the 
XLIV.-TREES AND SHRUBS IN SCOTTISH 
GARDENS. 
Ever since the middle decades of the last century— the days of 
Teff™^ g ° n Ass ° ciation and of the collectors W. Lobb and 
P,rS~ \ gard ? 8 ° f Scotlan <l, and more especially those of 
CerSn tvn !• bee » noted ^r their collections of conifers. 
ypesof coniferous plants, especially those of West 
ti£m ZT'r mt ° ? nd there editions more congenial to 
Europe^SoH? v a ^ ° ? eT P&rt ° f the British Mes or%ven of 
be fo P und +n • No 1 SlG ^ le %^en or locality, I believe, will ever 
rlukementsZ.f ^T' J™P«*ivo of hardiness, their 
ith no great 
"r. emes of heat or cold, with abundant ™««*« M «™i ™™, 
rabied tott.«i™. Y\" » W1UI abundant moisture, an. 
TWmes VrfW ■ gl i nteM !u drought8 BUch a8 are coinmon in the 
^T J?£»i n fcS;^»^t growth of a larger pro- 
considerable ToZi onrz^ci^- Such a climate a 
condit\U°the™ y ThfStP^r^^ find 8UCh COngeni&1 
deep inlets n f!J extensive seaboard of the country, the 
extent of moun a fll n iTf m f by the Gulf Str eam and the large 
western J eo f Soon"" ^ *? make the ^ ll ^ a »* P* ai ™ ° f «" 
V^^^r!ln^n!aT^ T l J adapted f ° r a Ration which 
u equable temperature rather than heat and 
Lva a^ 1 ' f^^ ^ ealand » ° f Certaln P artS ° f 
^ oUh 1 ^ the Upland valleys of Northern 
first seem a curian i lilt i W l con sequently find, what may at 
Ross-shire vK^ 7 '^ ^^ P lant * *™ thriving in 
^r^r* ^^^^ the winter in some of the 
Scia^dVo^LlHo be fnW ^^ teidve grou P of ^ ardens in 
the aid of the Direct a Ji "Merest and instruction. With 
gardens, a list of fifteen rSlj , ac< l uai nted with Scottish 
visited during the month of ^^a^r 68 ^ made aDd *"" * 
ot^b^a^SS^ b ,t n i CgardenS 0f Scotland-thce 
and representative arboretum Sf ^ u . ndation8 of an interesting 
Prof Bayl ey Balfour, but 1 1 ^ ^ d in Edinburgh by 
conditions are, I believe adveJ?? P ° 8iti ° n and the climatic 
, averse to luxuriant tree-growth. A large 
